Vehicle-body.



T. H. PARRY.

VEHICLE BODY.

Patented Mar. 4, 1913.

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UNITED STATES rigrnivir OFFICE.

THOMAS H. PARRY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR T0 PARRY MANUFAC-TURI NG COMPANY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

VEHICLE-BODY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 4, 1913.

Application filed July 15, 1912. Serial No. 709,435.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. PARRY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in thecounty of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Bodies, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to box-body vehicles having panels'withcontinuous curved or bent corners, and the object of the invention is totie the side and end sills of the frame together where they join at thecorners so they will not open up at the joint by expansion andcontraction of the Wood to check and crack the panels, and by the sametie-means to put the panel on a strain at the corner bends to insure itsclose fit there against the frame, and to correct any lack of uniformityin the curvature of the panel at the corner bends such as are common inall bent woodwork due to the nature of the material which cannot bedepended upon to hold a given shape.

I accomplish the objects of the invention by the means illustrated inthe accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of acorner of a boxbody frame and continuous panel with a corner bend, andembodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same partsshown in Fig. 1.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews of the drawing.

3 is a side sill of the frame and 4 an end sill. These sills are joinedtogether at the corners in any suitable and usual manner, the exactmethod not being material to my invention.

5 is the panel for the side and end formed preferably in a single pieceof a length to extend from one front corner of the body to the other andis steamed and bent in the usual manner around a suitable form toproduce rounded corners 6, ends 7 and sides 8.

The corners of the sill-frame are also rounded off to correspond withthe bends of the panel, the templet by which the corners of the frameare cut (generally after the frame is joined together) being preferablyof the same curve as to size and shape as that of the form around whichthe panel 5 is bent.

I have found in practice that the straight n: embers 7 and 8 of thepanel will spring out, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, after thebends 6 have been made, and frequently there will be a buckling of thefiber of the panel on its inner surface at the curve, and to correctboth of these faults, and also to tie the ends of the sills 3 and 4together at their joints so they will not open or appreciably change thecurve and relation of parts, I provide a tie-plate 9 formed out ofstrap-iron or steel. The ends of the tieplate 9 are extended along thestraight vertical sides of the sills 3 and 4 for several inches beyondthe curved corners of the frame, and its ends 10 are bent inwardly, asshown, and are introduced into saw-kerfs made for the purpose in thesills. The straight sides of the sills are cut away the thickness of thetie-plate 9 to let the latter in flush with the straight sides of thesills and these cut-away portions to receive the tie-plate 9 are mergedgradually into the original or middle curve of the corner of the framewith the result that the finished corner, as reinforced with thetie-plate 9, will have a greater projection at this middle part of itscurve than it had before, equal to the thickness of the tie-plate. Theresult of this construction is that when the panel 5 is assembled andnailed to the frame its curved corner 6 will be strained around theincreased middle projection of the rounded corner of the frame, a tightjoint between the panel and frame will result and any departures in thecurvature of the panel corners will be corrected.

The hooked ends 10 of the tie-plate 9 afford suflicient anchorage byinsertion into the curves of the frames to prevent any tendency of theframe to open at the corners due to expansion and contraction of itswooden sills.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and wish tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a vehicle body corner, sills meeting at an angle and cut to form acurved outer corner, a tie-plate connecting the adjacent sill-ends, saidplate projecting at its middle portion beyond the curved corner andhaving its ends anchored in their respective sills, and a one-pieceupright panel to form the side and end of the body with a curved insidecorner making a close joint with and suitably secured to the side silland end sill and also making a close joint with the tieplate at thecorner of the sills.

2. In a vehicle body corner, sills meeting at an angle and cut to form acurved outer corner, a tie-plate connecting the adjacent sill-ends, saidplate projecting at its middle portion beyond the curved corner andhaving its ends anchored in their respective sills, said sills being cutaway next to said anchorage to-let the tie-plate in even with. thestraight surface of the sill, and a onepiece upright panel to form aside and end of the body wlth a curved corner making a close'joint withand suitably secured to the side sill and endsill.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal atIndianapolis, Indiana, this 3rd day of July, A. D. one thousand ninehundred and twelve.

THOMAS H. PARRY. [11. s.]

Witnesses:

F. I/V. WOERNER, J. A. MINTURN.

Cbpiesof this patent'ma'y be obtained for five cents each,by'adii'ressingfihe "Commissioner of Patents, Washington; D. G'.

